Oh yikes, that's scary. I just assumed it was some kind of accumulation of skin cells and sweat just kind of festering from not getting enough air. Which is also scary, but in a different way.

Oh my word, her heart must be beating faster than a gerbil's.

It might be—and I'm honestly just taking a shot in the dark, here—because Vodianova is modeling the clothing that's actually being featured in the piece, while Eugenides et al are basically there as human props.

I guess I wouldn't be able to date Ted Harbert, either, because watching Chelsea Handler's show is also the last thing I want to do.

About 10% of the reason I have so little interest in parenting is because I don't think I can withstand 18 years of people hitting me with variations on "is it really so hard to...?"

...he touches their FEET?

Wait—her kids were in their car the whole two hours? By themselves, in the heat of a Florida summer? Surely that qualifies as child endangerment, at the very least?!

Absolutely agreed. Even when she was flubbing an interview in spite of her best intentions, she looked fabulous.

Oh, agreed there. I think it's a relevant thing to discuss, but, like, the twentieth-most-relevant thing.

Exercising their right to freely assemble?

I had a personalized action figure made as a gift once, and it was much more than $100. OTOH, that was sculpted, I think, not 3D-printed, so it probably took much more time.

I agree with you that ad hominem attacks on her body or wardrobe are unwarranted, but as 54Sylvie points out, there are relevant points to be made about her appearance, language, etc.—she's made herself a face of a movement, and there's a sales aspect to that. Part of selling her ideas is selling her image. And it's…

And then she said "even still, I loved them more than my children. My love hierarchy goes like this: husband, bees, children."

Oh believe me, nothing to feel disappointed about missing.

Eh, Jones isn't being super-sportsmanlike here, either. I mean, I have sympathy for the fact that she's probably physically exhausted and tired of these sorts of questions, but there's something off-putting about (a) the fact that she criticizes the U.S. media for not supporting U.S. athletes when she herself neglects…

YES! The one on the left appears to have a navel that's shifted way over to the side—look at whatever that is, under the "the." REAL PREGNANCY DOES NOT CAUSE THAT.

Ah. Well, yes, I agree with you that fear is not entirely useless, and if one can develop a healthy level of fear of things that can actually do harm (like a hot stove) without having to experience the full effect of the harm in question (third degree burns) then that's not a bad sort of fear to have.

maybe jklm3 measures weeks differently than everyone else?

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